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JavaScript

Posted by Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
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when a user click the cross button on top of window tab, will automatically update on mysql database.

I have a situation above:

when a user go to view.php page i will update my mysql database one of the column "view". when a user click the view another page or click the close button on top of window tab i will update the database "view" to "no" since to check the user is leaving the page should be done on client side i'm using javascript then using ajax to update my database.

below is my code

 window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;

                                    function confirmExit()
                                    {
                                    //update the database
                                    }

Since i'm closing the page it will closing the connection to the server and therefore it might won't wait Ajax call to finish. Is there more efficient way to make sure it can update the database when user leaving the current page